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A Coalition of Lions

10 best books like A Coalition of Lions (Elizabeth E. Wein): The Road Home, The FitzOsbornes at War, Girl in a Cage, The Hidden Land, The Chinese Garden, Lord Kirkle's Money, Frontier Wolf, Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival, The Legend of the King, The Oak Above the Kings

The Road Home
AuthorEllen Emerson White
ISBN0590467387
Lieutenant Rebecca Phillips had come to Vietnam to heal and give comfort, but found that nearly impossible. The war had torn her family apart and she wanted to know why. But there were no answers for her in Vietnam--only more questions.

When Rebecca returns to the U.S., her war still isn't over....
The FitzOsbornes at War
AuthorMichelle Cooper
ISBN0375970509
Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War.

Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe....
Girl in a Cage
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0142401323
When her father, Robert the Bruce, becomes King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, has set his sights on Robert and his family. Marjorie is captured and imprisoned in a wooden cage in the center of a town square, exposed to wind, rain,...
The Hidden Land
AuthorPamela Dean
ISBN0142501433
"That talent of mine that in my country turns to sorcery, in yours turns to this making up." (italics mine).

Essentially, this and the Secret Country should have been one book. I would have still been furious with it for being desperately and deliciously subtle, but the jarring feeling of the...
The Chinese Garden
AuthorRosemary Manning
ISBN1558612165
The Chinese Garden is the story of Rachel’s (who is based on Rosemary Manning herself) time at Bampfield, a girls’ college that the reader soon come to realize to be a place where “cruelty dwelt under the guise of discipline, and corruption beneath a mask of beauty and moral tone”. It’s a bildungsroman,...
Lord Kirkle's Money
AuthorAvi
ISBN0380728761
Maura and Patrick have escaped the desperate poverty and danger of leaving home in Ireland to face even greater peril as they continue their daring voyage to the New World with their friend Laurence Kirkle. Aboard ship, they are crowded into the stench-filled pit of steerage, where they come face to...
Frontier Wolf
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0140314725
A.D. 349

Alexios Flavius Aquila is an excellent swordsman but an immature military leader. A disastrous decision nearly gets him discharged from the Roman army, but his high-ranking uncle begrudgingly pulls some strings, and well-meaning-but-inept Alexios is transferred instead.

The...
Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival
AuthorTim Jarvis
In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever—and in period clothing and gear—the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.In early...
The Legend of the King
AuthorGerald Morris
ISBN0547144202
In this final installment of the Squire's Tale series, Terence and his fellow Knights of the Round Table must come together in a last stand to save Camelot. The characters Gerald Morris has brought to life throughout his series—“Terence and Gawain, Lynet and Gaheris, Luneta and Rhience, Dinadan...
The Oak Above the Kings
AuthorPatricia Kennealy-Morrison
ISBN0451454510
Taliesin, chief Bard of Keltia, brother in sword and deed and marraige to Arthur the king, sets his magical seeings into fated words. He tells how Arthur, the lost prince, overthrows the evil, uprising Archdruid and at last comes to his own kingship. But it is a double throne which he must share by law and...
The Prize in the Game
AuthorJo Walton
ISBN0765302632
When a friendly competition leads to the death of a beloved horse and incurs the wrath of the Horse Goddess, the kingdoms of the island of Tir Isarnagiri are doomed to suffer. As the goddess' curse chases them down the years, four friends destined for kingship-Conal, Emer, Darag, and Ferdia-are forced...
The House on Parchment Street
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0689704518
This book isn’t really quite what you’d expect if you know McKillip’s other work; it’s for a younger audience, and it feels like a different sort of story altogether. It’s more like… Famous Five, with ghosts; it’s not the total magic of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld or Winter Rose. It’s...
The Ramsay Scallop
AuthorFrances Temple
ISBN0064406016
The year is 1299. Fourteen year-old Elenor reluctantly awaits the return of her betrothed -- a man she hardly knows -- from the Crusade. Thomas, broken, and disillusioned from years of fighting, finds the very idea of marriage and lordship overwhelming. So when the village priest sends them on religious...
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